{"id":44611,"date":"2026-03-06T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/?p=44611"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:16:02","slug":"the-fm-method-12-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/the-fm-method-12-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Case report: knee pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clinician:<\/strong> Manildo Anna<\/p>\n<p>A 59-year-old male patient, carpenter, employed in a furniture factory. He does not engage in any sports activity.<\/p>\n<p>The patient reports the onset, approximately four months ago, of right knee pain localized in the antero-medial region, with spontaneous onset. The pain worsens with weight-bearing and reaches an intensity of 8\/10 on the NRS scale. Because of the pain, the patient has been unable to work for the past four months. He denies concomitant pain in other regions.<\/p>\n<p>In his past medical history, the patient reports surgery for lumbar disc herniation approximately thirty years ago and a severe right ankle sprain six years ago.<br \/>\nHe underwent an MRI of the right knee, after which an orthopedic diagnosis of arthrosynovitis was made. Two intra-articular injections (corticosteroid and hyaluronic acid) were administered \u2014 the first four months ago and the second fifteen days prior to the visit \u2014 both with minimal benefit.<br \/>\nHe also underwent a course of laser therapy to the knee, with unsatisfactory results.<\/p>\n<p>During motor verification, the squat was limited by pain, confirming a functional impairment of the right knee.<\/p>\n<p>During palpatory verification, the PE and GE segments were examined. The most altered sequence was found to be the AN-ME diagonal. Longitudinal palpation revealed densifications at AN-ME-PE3, AN-ME-TA1, AN-ME-TA2, and AN-ME-CX.<br \/>\nThese points were treated, resulting in a pain reduction of more than 50% by the end of the session.<\/p>\n<p>At the second session, one week later, the patient reported that the improvement had remained stable over time.<br \/>\nFurther treatment was performed on AN-ME-GE2 and RE-ME-PE3.<br \/>\nAt the end of the session, the knee pain was completely resolved, with full recovery of joint function.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinician: Manildo Anna A 59-year-old male patient, carpenter, employed in a furniture factory. He does not engage in any sports activity. The patient reports the onset, approximately four months ago, of right knee pain localized in the antero-medial region, with spontaneous onset. The pain worsens with weight-bearing and reaches an intensity of 8\/10 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":36219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44961,"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44611\/revisions\/44961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fascialmanipulation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}